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April 22, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Thank you very much.
It is Eric Erickson.
This is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Phone number is 800 282 882.
You can get me on Twitter as many people are today.
A lot of angry leftists at E.W. Erickson, email Eric at redstate.com.
In fact, you should all, if you're in front of a computer, go to redstate.com, see if you can crash the server.
My IT folks will have heart palpitations.
It would just be awesome to watch that, even though I'm not in the office.
There are stories that need to be told out there.
There are stories in the news that should be told that the media, because of its own biases, because of its own angles won't tell.
I mean, heck, see it in they they've moved off of the missing airliner only to replace it with the sunken ferry in Korea.
They won't get to some of these other stories.
One of those, for example, was about fracking, and the entire media was out to convince everyone in America.
Fracking was to blame for global warming, it was to blame for earthquakes, it was to blame for water pollution, it was to blame for cancer, a bunch of nonsense.
It wasn't settled.
And Ann MacElhenney and and others came together with a Kickstarter program.
Kickstarter's the website where you can go crowdsource projects, whether it be uh a watch or I'm a crowdsourcing something on Kickstarter for a new sort of credit card, or even movies, and and Anna McElhiney and others crowdsourced and produced fragnation that even the New York Times had to concede was meticulously researched, and they called it, of course, provocative because of the the angle it took.
Ann MacLinny is joining me now because they're doing a new project on a story the Washington Post, while it was making national headlines, the Washington Post refused to cover it, saying it was a local crime story in Pennsylvania.
That of course being Kermit Gosnell, the the I would call him a a mass murderer, the abortionist who just did horrific things.
Uh and in fact, as more and more evidence has come up, and Snerdley and I were talking about this during the break, was treating white women rather well and black women rather horribly in the abortion clinic, and it's a story that needs to be told.
People don't know.
The Washington Post wouldn't even cover it until they came under pressure.
So Ann, thanks very much for joining me.
How are you?
I'm very well.
Thanks very much for having me on, Eric.
Now I want to say I want to get into what you're actually doing, but before I get there, you used Kickstarter in the past.
I I've helped fundraise projects on Kickstarter, and you guys started off doing this on Kickstarter and ran into problems.
Yeah, I mean we we crowdfunded for fragnation on Kickstarter very successfully.
You know, three thousand people showed up and gave us more than two hundred thousand dollars, so it was a really grass grassroots effort.
It was fantastic.
And we thought, you know, absolutely wet with this new film, Gosnell, we would, you know, we'd go to Kickstarter because we'd used it before so successfully.
So, you know, we submitted our project about ten days before we needed to go live just to make sure everything was in in order.
Um, we didn't hear from them, we didn't hear from them, we didn't hear from them, and we had a lot of stuff planned for the day of the launch.
So we started a campanic, and we wrote and said, you know, what's going on here?
And they wrote in two separate emails, and we've published all of the correspondence, and they said that we would have to remove the language that talked about thousands of babies murdered, thousands of babies stabbed, which is actually what Gosnell did.
So they wanted us to say, you know, we want to make a movie about a thing that happened to a guy, someone crime story.
Yeah, a local crime story.
And it was amazing.
I mean, we were extraordinary we were aghast because basically we're making a film about a censored story, and just out of the you know, just out of the gates, the first thing that happens to us is censorship by Kickstarter, who claim, you know, that they're into diversity.
Um you know, when we challenged them, and this became a big story, they said, well, really, you know, we have PG it's kind of PG thirteen, the stuff on our site, and I don't want to say anything that would upset Russia's listeners, but let me just tell them that every bad word that they know, every curse word you know, is used in Kickstarter.
We don't have to mention them, but every of the most extreme language you've ever heard is used on Kickstarter.
Yes, although I have to say I I could just listen to you tell me all of those words with your fine accent all day.
We we won't do that, but I was interested about your mother.
I hope your mother isn't gonna are tweeting to you, Eric and telling you that I'm talking too fast.
She she's gonna be texting me about both of us.
That that's all right.
Okay, so you you've moved on from Kickstarter.
Now tell me about the film itself and why you feel called to do this.
You know, we were we were actually promoting fragnation in Pennsylvania, and we heard about the case as you say, you know, it was it was well publicized in Philadelphia, but not beyond that.
And you know, Philom was there, he went into the courtroom, and it was like the Mary Celeste.
Here you have America's most prolific serial killer who did kill children born alive who cried and fought for their lives, were their very brief lives, and no one is there.
They had a section of the court, and if people go to the gosnell movie.com site, they can see the photograph of the courtroom.
People there was no one there.
Phelum, who has covered crime in Northern Ireland, you know, did terrorism cases.
He said drink driving cases in Northern Ireland got more coverage, had more journalists than America's biggest serial killer.
And you know, you know this story well, Eric.
ABC News, NBC, CBC, MSNBC.
No one showed up, and it was a decision.
It wasn't an accident, it was a decision.
Um and we became obsessed.
You know, we love our kind of as a c as a company, we look at each other sometimes and say, What is it we do?
We tell stories that no one else will tell.
That's what we like to do, and it's a pleasure and it's a responsibility and a privilege.
Um and people have shown up, so many people have shown up to support us with Gosnell movie.
I mean, I'm just looking at the page right now.
Nearly th nearly twelve thousand people.
I want that to be a hundred thousand people.
Well, where are you right now in the status of funding the project?
Yeah, we're at I'm just gonna read it off the screen to you.
It's one point one million one hundred and fifty-five thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars have come in from how many people?
Eleven thousand six hundred and forty-two people.
I think a lot of story.
Yeah, I I would think so.
So where can people go to help the effort?
They can go to GosnellMovie.com.
It's as simple as that.
Just go to GosnellMovie.com and give the smallest amount, give a dollar, give ten dollars.
Some people are given a lot more.
But this is an extraordinary story, Eric.
I mean, you have you know the details of this story.
What this man did, and you know, I was thinking of one way to describe this story.
For some people, thinking about a thousand dead babies is really tough.
But I was thinking of the image of Schindler's List.
You remember the child with the red coat?
Yes.
Everyone remembers they did that.
They did that intentionally because the Holocaust was so big, it's hard to comprehend.
And sometimes when, you know, and so with this case, there were children, and there are photographs of them, as you probably know, Eric, in the grand jury report.
There's baby boy B. Baby boy B, and he's the one let's focus on him.
He was so big, he was born alive, he cried, he fought for his life, he was thrown into a shoebox where his legs were so long that they fell out of the side of the shoebox.
And Gosnell laughed as he killed that baby and said, This one's big enough to walk home with me.
Yes, I I remember that.
Now, I found it interesting.
And Mr. Schnerdley, I know you know, would uh was uh I heard uh talking to him earlier.
I think it's an extraordinary thing as well that this man was also a racist, that he had a special room for white women, white women got a better treatment.
They were in a room where the bed linen was cleaned every now and again.
There was a cat walking through the premises when the raid happened, a flea infected cat, and that's not national news.
That's not a news story that's worth that's worth knowing.
And that's why we're making a made-for-TV movie, because we all know who Ted Bundy is.
We know who John Wayne Gacy is.
Why don't we know who this guy is?
And America is fascinated by by serial killers.
Here's your biggest serial killer.
Let's find out what happened here, and let's find out why for seventeen years no government agency crossed the threshold to go in and ask any questions about what was going on there.
Well, and and I've by the way, while we've been sitting here, people, I've gone to GosnellMovie.com and I've given a hundred dollars to the campaign.
So thank you.
You can do it too.
I I'm a big supporter of this.
This story, I I was amazed that it took my friend Molly Hemingway writing about it and giving national focus to it.
And then Kirsten Powers colleague of mine at Fox News has a column in the USA Today.
She called out the media for not covering this.
I I believe it was Molly, uh, don't hold it to me, who got the Washington Post reporter to say it was Molly, I think to say it was a local crime story.
That's why they weren't covered it.
And there was a similar story down in Texas at the time as well, causing the situation that led to the rise of Wendy Davis, and the media would much prefer to focus on a a missing jet line or global warming.
Yeah, and you know, and you know what's amazing, Eric.
One of the things we said to people was, you know, we we went out on the streets here in Los Angeles, We showed photographs of of Jody Arias to people.
Everyone knew who she was.
Everyone recognized her.
They said she changed her hair color.
She looks like a librarian.
She killed her boyfriend in the shower, and they had all this detail about her.
Then we showed them a photograph of Kermit Gosnell.
No one recognized him.
Then we said what his name was.
No one recognized him.
We said he was an abortion doctor.
No one had heard of him.
We said he killed babies.
No one had heard of him.
No one had heard of him.
And we think it's amazing that the media, they gave us wall-to-wall coverage about Jody Aries.
And it's obvious now for her the you know, for the boyfriend who was killed, his family, the friends, it's a terrible thing that happened.
Oh, yeah, it was certainly sensational, but certainly no less sensational than what was happening in Pennsylvania.
Yeah, and there's also public policy issues here that I did that did deserve an awful lot of attention.
And by the way, a Republican governor, a Republican governor was the one who said hands off here, hands off, and don't touch those abortion clinics.
So for 17 years, nobody went across the threshold, despite the fact that two women died.
Nail salons, according to the grand jury, nail salons in Philadelphia are better monitored for health um reasons than this clinic.
I mean, you know, we have no inquiry.
We have an inquiry into the bridge gate.
There's an inquiry into Bridge Gate.
Who cares?
There's no inquiry going on in Philadelphia.
Let me ask you this.
How do you tell I mean, you we put up at Red State when this was coming up, we put up the preview video.
How do you how do you tell a story like this?
One without just horrifying everyone, but also how how do you how do you m form the story?
Well, I think interestingly enough, you know, the heroes in all the worst in all in every story.
We've told amazing stories in in this in this world about the Holocaust.
We've managed to do that.
As I said, the little girl with the red coat.
And that's uh I think that's somehow the way we'll tell this story.
And there are, for those people listening who are just horrified by this story, and it is horrific.
There are good things.
There are people that you mentioned, like Molly Hemingway, like Kirsten Powers, who were heroic in the face of all the opposition, who went out and whistled, you know, did the whistleblowing.
But even before that, there were heroic people.
There were medical doctors and there were individuals trying to get something happen at that at that clinic, trying to blow the whistle, and everyone ignoring them.
So there are heroic stories.
And there's one story that actually I I think we could could end up being the central story.
There was one woman, a 27-year-old, who went for an abortion to Gosnell's clinic.
She with a three-day procedure.
The first day she went in, got she said to Gosnell, What happened to the babies?
And he said, We burned them.
So she went home that evening.
She felt really bad.
She spoke to her cousin, and her cousin phoned uh phoned up Gosnell and said, We don't want to do this, we want to reverse this.
His first reaction was, We're not you're not getting your money back.
By the way, your thirteen hundred dollars.
You're not getting your thirteen hundred dollars back.
And by the way, I don't do reversals.
But thank God for those women's courage.
They went to the local hospital, and that child is in a kindergarten today in Philadelphia.
Hell yeah.
And I could see that as the final scene in our film because we have to have power some hope here.
Yeah, we do when these dark things happen.
Well, Ann McLenny, look, thanks very much for joining us on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
You can go to GosnellMovie.com to fund this.
I appreciate you taking the time.
My best with the effort, I'm excited to see it.
What you guys did with Fracknation was fantastic.
I'm Merrick Erikson.
You've been listening to Rush Limbaugh.
You know, back in 2008, uh, over at redstate.com where I'm the editor, I went into the the way back machine, if you will.
I went into Lexus Nexus and chronicled Barack Obama as a state senator in Illinois.
He was the only guy to speak in favor of essentially Infanticide.
Basically, they they were passing the Born Alive Infant Protection Act in Illinois, which would prohibit doctors from trying to off a child that had been born during an abortion alive.
Barack Obama was the one guy to stand up and oppose it.
He he said we should rely on the doctor to finish the job.
And so I documented this, and this was my first taste with the left when I went to CNN.
They hired me, I I guess 2009, 2010, and the left and they were incensed that I had said this, and I took great pleasure whenever these topics would come up on CNN to point out that the president was in favor of infanticide.
He stood up and defended this, opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
And the facts drive them crazy.
The left would much rather pay attention to other things.
The new the Washington Post, the same reporter who called the Gosnell situation a local crime story in Pennsylvania, has covered minuscule stories around the country.
They're in infatuated with Wendy Davis, who's under an FBI investigation in Texas.
They were infatuated with her and her pink shoes, filibustering legislation in Texas that would stop Gosnell situations there.
Mind you, they had uncovered some.
So kudos to Ann McElhaney and and her her folks for producing and directing and putting together this movie on a story the media would prefer that you not know anything about.
They would much rather cover The Missing Airliner.
They would much rather cover the fairy, but there's something else to it as well.
Something I found now, being in the media, and I was in doing media interviews before I was at CNN and then moved over to Fox or where I am now.
A lot of the rec reporters who cover stories are youngsters.
There's nothing wrong with youngsters.
We've all been youngsters.
I'm 38.
Some of these reporters are in their 30s.
Some of them are in their twenties.
But many of them have no sense of history.
Liberals, of course, have no sense of history.
Liberals could care less about the sense of history.
I was reading an article yesterday.
It was an interview in the published in The Guardian between H. G. Wells and uh what's his name?
Joseph Stalin, and how they were both lamenting socialism refusing to grasp all these things are old.
The old is new again.
The left forgets them.
And I find with reporters, particularly in politics, that they have no sense of history.
Many of the reporters covering politics in the United States today started their history in 2000, Bush versus Gore and George Timmy Busch Hitler, Halliburton and Dick Cheney stealing the election from the noble and pure Albert Gore Jr., whose father filibustered the Civil Rights Act, but let's not point that out.
And then you've got reporters up and coming who are younger reporters, who they got their start in campaign 2008 or campaign 2012.
And they say things and they write things and they cover stories as if it's never happened before.
They are oblivious to things that happened just ten years ago.
It skews their coverage.
It makes them say profoundly dumb things, but it also causes them to ignore stories that should be told and to promote Antoine, and of course they're liberals, so they have every incentive to stories that don't necessarily need to be told, or stories that they want to hype because they're out to save the world.
Remember, it was the Supreme Court that stole the election from Al Gore, saving America from Al Gore.
And these young reporters who grew up and came of age and that time, they believe that they have to write Albert Gore Jr.'s legacy.
They have to champion things like global warming.
I've got a series of global warming stories.
I'm sorry, climate change.
Let's get it right.
This week it's climate change.
Used to be global cooling, then global warming.
Now it's it's climate change.
One of those Frank Luntstinger Majiggies where he convinces them they gotta change the language to sell the argument.
I don't know a soul in the world who doesn't think the climate is changing.
Just three months ago in Middle Georgia, where I live, Macon Georgia of all things, home of the Allman brothers, by the way, and Otis Redding, and James Brown, and Little Richard.
And really good food at New Aunt anyway.
There are four inches of snow on the ground.
And now suddenly the daffodils are blooming, they're almost gone.
My tulips are all gone.
I planted a pile of them.
They're all gone now.
It's warm outside, it's yellow because of pollen, my throat is sore.
Climate changes all the time.
But Mr. Eric Funn, the this is called weather.
The th weather.
It only is climate when the Vath on the left use the term.
When those of you on the right, you fascist used the term, it called weather changing.
Oh, yeah, see, that they won't even control the language that we use in these debates.
It is Earth Day.
It is no coincidence that Earth Day is today, also a communist holiday.
Seriously.
Went to the bottom of the hour.
I want to delve into these.
There are a series of stories out there that over the last couple of weeks.
I heard Rush mentioning them last Wednesday that we should dive into these for Earth Day and celebrate.
You know, my kid yesterday was telling me I needed to talk on the radio today about pollution and how it's causing the earth to heat up.
I said, Where did you learn this?
They let her watch, she goes to a private Christian school.
They let her watch this on some TV show.
I told her it wasn't true.
I told her that people who hate Jesus believe these things.
That really hit her good.
So now she's with me.
It's true, though.
You hear these people out there saying these things about, oh, the world is gonna be, we're gonna be extinct, or the robots are going to rise up against us.
These are the environmentalists, the watermelons.
They're green on the outside, but they're red in the middle.
They they hate capitalism, they hate population, they hate these things, and they are convinced that you people are to blame for all the world's problems.
We, in a few minutes, we'll get into these bizarre stories that are out there, even environmentalists changing their mind.
Today, my friends, is a very important day.
I don't believe it's a coincidence.
I really don't, they deny it, of course.
Today is Vladimir Lenin's birthday.
Yes, Vladimir Lenin, he was born on this day, way back when 1870, to be precise, a hundred years later to the day.
A group of America hating leftists.
It's true they were.
They were very sympathetic to communism.
The environmental movement is basically a bunch of communists who, when the Soviet Union collapsed and they couldn't get funded by Moscow anymore, they turned to environmentalism, and now the federal government funds them.
Oh, that burns some of you I know.
But a hundred years after Vladimir Lenin's birth, on April 22nd, 1970, a group of hippies started Earth Day.
And for that, our children, me when I was growing up, my kids now are bombarded by environmental propaganda in school that they term settled science, settled science, like the earth is flat, settled science, like the atom is the smallest thing known to mankind, settled science that larger, heavier objects fall faster than smaller objects.
All these things, settled science, and science is rarely ever settled, mind you, but they want to shut up debate now.
Well, there's new gallup polling out.
Gallup polling shows increased skepticism about global warming.
A quarter of Americans are not worried about global warming much or at all.
Thirty-six percent have mixed feelings, and thirty-nine percent, quote, attribute global warming to human actions and are worried about it.com.
The divide in belief divides up along partisan lines.
Of course, Republicans are skeptics by 80% Democrats, 76% of them are believers.
I mean, they they have substituted one religion for another, the environmental movement here, and that's why all these secular Democrats have bought into it.
But the news isn't going well for them.
There are a host of studies out there, including Rush last Wednesday.
I I was driving up to Atlanta listening to the show on WSP and hurting.
Read the story.
Asian pollution is causing a dramatic strengthening of storms in North America.
So it's it's the ChICOMs who are to blame fine i see this is this is the great conundrum the environmental movement finds itself in.
Do they really blame commies for pollution on Earth?
Because at heart they love communists, and they're having to blame themselves almost for this.
They want the the West to shut down all their environmental damage and industrial production so that China and the BRIC nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China, so they can continue to pollute and feel good about it because you know, those are the bad guys, save India, Russia, China, Brazil, they're not really our friends, and so the environmentalists are rooting for these nations against us.
But now it turns out air pollution in China and other Asian countries is causing storms in North America to become stronger, according to a NASA survey.
Now we know what NASA does.
Since NASA can no longer send men to the moon or outer space, we have to rely on our enemies, the Russians, to get people up to the International Space Station.
NASA has time to look at pollution back on Earth.
But there are other stories out there.
You know, Roy Spencer, who's been on this program a number of times, has pointed out we live in a day and age where the models are reality.
And by that I mean that they started producing these nonsensical models back in the eighties and nineties of what the world was going to do.
We now live in the reality that the models predicted.
And pretty much every single one of them got the reality wrong.
But you don't hear that in the media.
In the media, you hear it's settled science.
Well, it may be settled science, but it's still wrong.
The models are wrong.
The scientists are wrong.
It's consensus.
I don't care that it's consensus.
It's consensus on the left that Obamacare is great, that doesn't make it right.
We know millions of Americans are getting screwed because of Obamacare.
Same with this environmental nonsense, raising the cost of the middle class.
And that's really what this is about.
You've got people on the left who believe in aristocracy.
They believe that they can save humanity.
They believe that most humans will live in their squalor forever, but they can make it comfortable.
They oppose efforts to introduce modern farming means in Africa, genetically modified corn crops that can produce more corn on smaller acres of land.
That would be better for the environment.
But no, we can't have that.
We can't have Africans becoming first world developed countries because more pollution.
The left uses environmentalism as the screen to hide their anti-capitalist anti-free market agenda.
I mean, my kid comes home from school and is all worried about the rain, forest and pollution.
God bless her.
You know, I love the rainforest.
It's fantastic.
We can send hippies down there to get malaria and some of them won't come back.
I I love the rainforest.
That's gonna be the media matter sitting of the day, just watch.
But I don't really get worked up into this nonsense.
If I could get a plate of spotted owl, I bet it would taste like chicken and be delicious.
You've got this guy out in Nevada, Bundy, who the federal government is after him because of tortoises.
You got the the little snail darter or what have you in California, starving farmers of water to grow crops to feed Americans.
This is an anti population agenda.
They don't like people.
They like their animals.
I was coming into the station this morning and there was some tree hugger commercial on quoting Gandhi.
You know, Gandhi really wasn't that great of a guy if you actually study history as opposed to just the Hollywood movie about him.
He wasn't all that great of a person.
When liberals start quoting Gandhi, you should be careful.
And then they start putting animals ahead of people.
You should be careful.
All of these stories out there, let me just IJ Review has a list of 23 stories you should read well before Earth Day, we get them here.
Humans are not to blame for global warming.
Say Green Peace's co-founder.
Scientists, including James Hansen, are admitting the global temperature standstill is real.
It's called a plateau in temperature.
The guy, James Lovelock, who came up with the idea of Gaia Mother Earth as this living, breathing organism.
He calls himself an alarmist, admits to it.
Climate change U-turn as scientists at the center of the row admits there hadn't been global warming since 1995.
And yet we still have NASA and others trotting out these projections that it's hotter now than it has ever been before on planet Earth.
Except it hasn't.
We know it's been hotter in the past.
It was hotter during the Roman era and before, way back during the dinosaur era, it was hot.
I I guess the dinosaurs were captains of industry.
That must be how they it went extinct.
We blame a meteor, and really it was a capitalist manifesto that annihilated the dinosaurs.
They learned to manual like the far side comic.
They learned to manufacture cigarettes, all of the pollution that came from the cigarettes wiped out the dinosaurs.
It was all capitalism to blame them too.
And it was just a cover up by the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, and the Robber Barons.
I'm sure.
I'm sure that that's that's where they head.
James Spencer points out these global warming models, they aren't real.
Yet meanwhile, children are coming home from school every day, Worried that the mere act of breathing, their breathing, is killing the earth.
Children come home in a panic.
That by going to McDonald's to get a happy meal for a boy or girl, oh, we gotta get into the story about some little wacko in Connecticut who wants gender non-specific toys at McDonald's.
Nonetheless, the kids come home, they're worried that merely by getting a happy meal at McDonald's, they're making the penguins and polar bears unhappy.
This is just a religious change.
You know, I am an evangelical Christian.
I've read how the book ends.
It's a pale horse and Johnny Cash play it in the background.
It's not robots coming.
It's not the end of humanity.
If the people who believe in evolution seem to believe that humans can't adapt or evolve.
Meanwhile, you got that Ezra Klein kid hired some lefty or no no no.
No, no, no.
It was the Nate Silver, the five thirty-seven or whatever blog, the other liberal who's creating this supposed objective website who hires some liberal kid who well, he's not willing to admit that every bad climate event on in the planet is because of global warming, and says we should adapt.
Which is true.
People should be adapting.
If we were to shut everything down today, if we were all to collectively hold our breath, if we were to shut down every factory, every nuclear power plant, every solar farm, every windmill that's killing birds, every coal production facility, if we shut it all down, the world would still be warming.
So maybe instead of destroying our economy, like the left want like I'm sorry, the environmental movement because they care want us to do.
Maybe we should just adapt.
Maybe you think?
Eric Erikson here in for Rushland Ball.
Welcome back.
It is Eric Erikson sitting in for Rush Limbaugh to answer the question I know you all wanted to know.
I just I feel it in the force.
I'm not behind the golden EIB microphone today.
I'm behind my my black, kind of smelly foam covered microphone in Atlanta.
I I didn't journey up to New York.
The I'm cheap, the bean counters like it.
What can you say?
And I don't like to travel anymore.
I I gotta travel to Iowa.
I'm moderating the uh the family leaders family forum in Iowa on Friday.
It's it's their or the Republican the you got a Senate primary in Iowa, so I'm going up there to ask these guys questions and see who the see if I can figure it out the squishes.
Nonetheless, we move on.
I would like I think I'm gonna go take a phone call.
Victor in Atlanta, Georgia has been waiting rather patiently.
Victor, how are you?
I'm doing well, doing well, Eric.
Uh I wanted to touch base on the two thousand sixteen uh elections on on who you think might be a a real viable contender.
Um but also you mentioned before about the Democrats and how they treat Hispanics, and I I am Hispanic, and I gotta tell you here, I'm here in Atlanta and I ran for office in two thousand ten, and I was amazed at how being a Hispanic and running as a conservative, and I was dubbed by the AJ.
Race traitor.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, I mean that's what they think journal constitution as the Tea Party candidate and the group.
And I gotta tell you, when I ran into Democrats and I went into, you know, I was in a very liberal district, and the the way the Democrat Party officials, not the people so much, but the Democrat Party officials, the way they would treat me and talk to me was this I I was fiberglass, but you know what?
It is what it is, and and I'll tell you what, I'm one Hispanic who will run, walk, or crawl through the polls to vote for Ted Cruz or Rand Paul, or any conservative that will stand up and fight bless you.
The Democrats and the establishment.
Yeah, well, yeah, you know, I mean, conservatives got an establishment problem too as we head into 2016.
No, I I I I'm told you're very interested in this 2016 lineup of where I think things are headed.
Yeah, you don't like to know your opinion on who you think really is is gonna jump in.
Like I would love to see Ted Cruz, I would love to see Rand Paul.
I think they will.
I don't think you'll be disappointed in that.
I I will tell you the way I see it shaping up, but it's still early.
The Republicans have such a deeper bench than the Democrats.
Hillary Clinton is all they have, and I'm personally, I'm still not completely convinced she's going to run.
I realize I'm in the minority.
Part of me thinks that this is just a ploy to let us all focus our attention on her while some of these other guys like Andrew Cuomo and whatnot, who uh desperately wants to run, can probably sit back and uh avoid the withering fire.
Meanwhile, all the Republicans are under fire.
I I mean, think of the the deep bench that we're going to have.
Scott Walker in Wisconsin probably.
Uh Rick Perry in Texas, Ted Cruz from Texas, Bobby Gindle from Louisiana, Marco Rubio, maybe Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, maybe.
Mike Pence from Indiana is rattling on about possibly doing it.
Rand Paul from the the Kentucky possibly doing it.
We have a very deep bench.
I never thought I would say this, but I it I I think that we don't really need any more any more bushes, or we've had enough of this.
Yeah, you know, look, I encouraged uh Jeb to run in 2012.
I thought he would have been better than Romney, and I stand by that, but I think his time is passed, and he he's outside the the party on Common Core and on immigration on a host of it.
I really think he's just talking about this right now so that he can get his ideas out there.
I hope you're right.
And it's nothing against uh Deb.
I I actually you know, I I like him and he was a good governor of Florida.
We gotta give him that.
Yeah, but I just I think his time has passed.
And he but he was he was.
He was a good governor there, but but I I think it's more of a perception, and the people I just don't want to battle that the Bush you know, I don't want to battle the the Clinton thing either.
I I think they're done, and I think you're right.
I think Hillary Yeah, i it's it's very hard to say we need to move forward in this country by going backward to prior candidates.
That's the problem here in in Georgia where you and I are, the Democrats going back to the 70s to find Jimmy Carr a Carter to run for governor and a nun to run for the Senate, and they they've got another guy who may be running for ag commissioner in Georgia using his his grandfather's name.
Uh they're they're out of candidates.
The Democrats don't have a deep bench.
And you know, historically, it doesn't work well for parties in power for their third term.
Charlie Cook has an analysis out.
He's the the nonpartisan guy the media worships when it comes to these things.
He points out that uh Reagan was able to win a third term.
Reagan's party, the Republicans won with George H. W. Bush and then lost.
Uh it's very, very hard for incumbent parties to win three in a row, no matter how it goes.
Look at Bill Clinton uh going into 2000.
I I just pardon me, and I I'm willing to admit I'm in the minority.
I'm willing to admit I could very well be wrong.
All of my Democratic friends are salivating.
Yeah, I have a couple of them, and they're all salivating at the idea of Hillary Clinton running in 2016.
She's gonna be old.
I I don't know how far back they can pull her face to can I say that on the air?
I don't know.
I I just you know, I I'm maybe I shouldn't.
You know what I mean, though.
Is there's gonna be an age factor there, and does she want to go out and and be like John McCain in 2008.
The Democrats were playing up the old card.
Remember, the Democrats were attacking John McCain, a war hero, because he couldn't use his his hand.
He he held the pin, or that that was Bob Dole, and then John McCain had issues as well.
He couldn't raise his hands, and they were attacking him for that.
Of course, if the Republicans were to do the same to Hillary Clinton, it would be racism, even though she's not black or Hispanic.
It would be sexism because she's a woman.
They will find a way to make it homophobic.
They will find a way to make it every attack you could possibly level will be some phobia from the right if Hillary does get in.
And I don't know that the American public will buy it.
I think the public is probably ready to move on from the 1990s.
I'm Eric Erickson.
This is the Rushlin Ball Show.
If you don't know, and most of you probably don't, I have kids.
I have an eight-year-old daughter and I have a five-year-old son, and they are kids who like a happy meal on occasion.
My wife happens to be a wonderful cook, which is a detriment to my waistline.
Nonetheless, she cooks very, very well.
And she roots for the Cowboys, so she and Snerdley are in sync on on that little thing.
I can't get her to root for the Saints.
Yeah, and most of America.
Yeah.
I this article started surfacing today, and I don't feel bad deeming this kid, and it is a 17-year-old kid now.
In the fall of 2008, this is at Slate.com, the the left-wing magazine website that even Jeff Bezos was smart enough not to buy when he bought the Washington Post.
So this kid, oh, what is this kid's name?
Antonia Ayers Brown is upset because international outrage of McDonald's.
Daring to ask if I guess she or should I say it?
What?
Preferred a girl toy or a boy toy.
And this 17-year-old is on an international campaign to get McDonald's to stop asking kids which toy they want.
Maybe they should give them both, and my kids can divide them up and my boy get two boy toys, the girl get two.
Why?
Why should some little totalitarian out there decide that they should ruin happy meals for the rest of us?
Liberals are some very unhappy people.
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